±Recent Visitors

Recent Visitors to Com-Central!

±User Info-big


Welcome Anonymous

Nickname
Password

Membership:
Latest: HighestAce
New Today: 0
New Yesterday: 0
Overall: 6648

People Online:
Members: 0
Visitors: 196
Total: 196
Who Is Where:
 Visitors:
01: Home
02: Community Forums
03: Photo Gallery
04: Home
05: Photo Gallery
06: Photo Gallery
07: Downloads
08: Community Forums
09: Home
10: Home
11: Home
12: Community Forums
13: Photo Gallery
14: Home
15: Search
16: Photo Gallery
17: Home
18: Community Forums
19: Community Forums
20: Community Forums
21: Member Screenshots
22: Home
23: Community Forums
24: Downloads
25: Community Forums
26: Community Forums
27: Member Screenshots
28: Photo Gallery
29: Community Forums
30: Photo Gallery
31: Community Forums
32: Community Forums
33: Home
34: Home
35: Member Screenshots
36: Community Forums
37: Community Forums
38: Community Forums
39: Downloads
40: Community Forums
41: Community Forums
42: Home
43: Home
44: Community Forums
45: Home
46: Community Forums
47: Home
48: Community Forums
49: Home
50: Photo Gallery
51: Home
52: Home
53: Home
54: Home
55: Community Forums
56: Photo Gallery
57: Home
58: News
59: Photo Gallery
60: Community Forums
61: Home
62: Community Forums
63: Member Screenshots
64: Community Forums
65: Community Forums
66: Community Forums
67: Downloads
68: Community Forums
69: Community Forums
70: Community Forums
71: Home
72: Photo Gallery
73: Community Forums
74: Downloads
75: Photo Gallery
76: Photo Gallery
77: Home
78: Downloads
79: Community Forums
80: Community Forums
81: Photo Gallery
82: Photo Gallery
83: Community Forums
84: Downloads
85: Downloads
86: Community Forums
87: Photo Gallery
88: Photo Gallery
89: Photo Gallery
90: Photo Gallery
91: Photo Gallery
92: Community Forums
93: Home
94: Home
95: Home
96: Photo Gallery
97: Photo Gallery
98: Community Forums
99: Home
100: Home
101: Community Forums
102: Photo Gallery
103: Home
104: Home
105: Member Screenshots
106: Home
107: Community Forums
108: Photo Gallery
109: Photo Gallery
110: Photo Gallery
111: Photo Gallery
112: Home
113: Home
114: Community Forums
115: Community Forums
116: Home
117: Community Forums
118: Home
119: Home
120: Photo Gallery
121: Home
122: Community Forums
123: Home
124: Community Forums
125: Photo Gallery
126: Downloads
127: Home
128: Photo Gallery
129: Photo Gallery
130: Community Forums
131: Photo Gallery
132: Photo Gallery
133: Community Forums
134: Home
135: Downloads
136: News Archive
137: Home
138: Photo Gallery
139: Community Forums
140: Community Forums
141: Member Screenshots
142: Community Forums
143: Home
144: Photo Gallery
145: Photo Gallery
146: Community Forums
147: Photo Gallery
148: Photo Gallery
149: Downloads
150: Photo Gallery
151: Home
152: Community Forums
153: Community Forums
154: Photo Gallery
155: Community Forums
156: Home
157: Community Forums
158: Photo Gallery
159: Home
160: Community Forums
161: Member Screenshots
162: Member Screenshots
163: Member Screenshots
164: Home
165: Community Forums
166: Photo Gallery
167: Photo Gallery
168: Community Forums
169: Home
170: Home
171: Downloads
172: Community Forums
173: Downloads
174: Community Forums
175: Home
176: Home
177: Home
178: Statistics
179: Home
180: Community Forums
181: Photo Gallery
182: Home
183: Photo Gallery
184: Community Forums
185: Photo Gallery
186: Photo Gallery
187: Community Forums
188: Community Forums
189: Home
190: Member Screenshots
191: Photo Gallery
192: Community Forums
193: Photo Gallery
194: Community Forums
195: Photo Gallery
196: Home

Staff Online:

No staff members are online!
A pre Christmas present? :: Archived
Resolve issues with your computer problems here or read about the latest computer parts and information.
Post new topic    Revive this topic    Printer Friendly Page     Forum Index ›  Hardware

Topic Archived View previous topic :: View next topic  
Author Message
Shadow_Bshwackr
Janitor

Offline Offline
Joined: Jan 21, 2005
Posts: 7019
Location: Central Illinois, USA
PostPosted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 6:36 am
Post subject: A pre Christmas present?

:D... Looks as if the CPU wars are heating up!! That's good for all us gamers!!..lol

AMD Carves Turion, Athlon 64 X2 Prices For Holidays
By Mark Hachman

Advanced Micro Devices lowered prices on its Turion notebook processors as well as its Athlon 64 processors for the desktop, in a bid to steal market share as the holiday season begins.

AMD sliced its Turion prices by 26 percent, while lopping off about $100 off its highest-end AMD Opteron X2, its dual-core part. AMD also streamlined its overall product offering, eliminating the 3000+ and 2800+ parts from its Athlon 64 family, together with the desktop-replacement (DTR) line of its Athlon 64 notebook processors.


Purchasing for the holiday season generally begins in September and October, continuing through November, when the sales cycle actually begins. Prices offered by AMD and rival Intel don't reflect volume purchases that can bring the price down further, and actual PC sales prices can also be affected by rebates and other volume discounts.

The third and fourth quarters generally produce the most revenue for PC companies, especially as the personal computer has morphed into a consumer-electronics device. During the fourth quarter of 2004, AMD reported sales of $1.26 billion, which fell slightly during the first quarter 2005 to sales of $1.23 billion. AMD lost $30 million and $17 million, respectively for the two quarters. AMD's processor revenue contradicted the holiday sales theory, however, growing from $730 million to $750 million from the fourth quarter 2004 to the first quarter 2005.

Although the Turion filled a niche in AMD's product line within the thin-and-light notebook market, its launch of the dual-core AMD Athlon 64 X2 is regarded as the future direction of the company. AMD cut the price of its top-end 4800+ X2 from $902 to $803, a difference of 11 percent, while trimming the price of the 4600+ from $704 to $643. Cuts on the 4400+ and 3800+ were modest; the company discounted both chips by about $30 or so, to $507 and $328, respectively. However, AMD trimmed the 4200+ by $74 to a final price of $408, a difference of 15 percent.

AMD did not offer any additional discounts to its Athlon 64 line.

AMD offered significant discounts on the Turion as well. Within the ML and MT categories, AMD sliced the price of the fastest ML-40 and MT-40 chip by 26 percent and 25 percent, respectively. The remainder of the Turion line received less severe cuts, leaving AMD's cheapest MT-28 and ML-28 chips at $145 and $150, down from $154 and $159.

Intel, AMD's closest rival, did not announce any price cuts.


They didn't YET... But you know Intel won't stand by the sidelines and take this abuse...lol
Back to top
View user's profile Visit poster's website Photo Gallery
Display posts from previous:   
Post new topic    Revive this topic    Printer Friendly Page    Forum Index ›  Hardware
Page 1 of 1
All times are GMT - 6 Hours

Archive Revive
Username:
This is an archived topic - your reply will not be appended here.
Instead, a new topic will be generated in the active forum.
The new topic will provide a reference link to this archived topic.